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1. www.amazon.com › WHEN-BRONX-BURNED-Yorks-Secret › dpWHEN THE BRONX BURNED: New York's Best Kept Secret

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   Sep 27, 2007 · In the South Bronx during the 1960s and 70s, unscrupulous landlords and their torch-men set in motion a murderous wave of arson-for-profit, driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and injuring, maiming, and killing thousands more-including firefighters. Yet New York's mayor consistently refuses to give the fire department the ...

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2. ny.curbed.com › 2019/5/3 › 18525908In the 1970s, the Bronx was burning, but some residents were ...

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   May 3, 2019 · In the 1970s, fires ravaged much of the Bronx: seven census tracts lost 97 percent of their buildings and 44 tracts lost more than 50 percent. Many people still believe that those fires were the ...

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3. fivethirtyeight.com › features › why-the-bronxWhy The Bronx Really Burned | FiveThirtyEight

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   New York City firefighters battle a blaze in an abandoned tenement building in the South Bronx in 1977. ... the Bronx is burning.” ... But in his book “The Fires,” Joe Flood 2 lays the blame ...

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ladies_and_Gentlemen,_theLadies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning - Wikipedia

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   9781429931038. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City is a book by Jonathan Mahler that focuses on the year 1977 in New York City. First published in 2005, it's described as 'a layered account', 'kaleidoscopic', 'a braided narrative', which weaves political, cultural, and ...

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5. hyperallergic.com › 509397 › decade-of-fire-bronxHow New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough Survived

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   Jul 16, 2019 · New York needed the South Bronx to become a “ghetto” in order to instigate its “urban renewal,” a long process of demolishing low-income housing to make way for Lincoln Center, Columbia ...

6. www.pbs.org › wnet › chasing-the-dreamWho Burnt the Bronx? "Decade of Fire" shows how thousands ...

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   Nov 5, 2019 · From Independent Lens, the film Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s. Left unprotected by the city government ...

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   What happened to the South Bronx during the 'decade of fire'?

   • Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s. Left unprotected by the city government, nearly a quarter-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multiethnic neighborhood burned to the ground, reducing the community to rubble.

   Decade of Fire | The South Bronx Fires | Independent Lens | PBS

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   Why did the South Bronx stop burning?

   • When Fort Apache, the Bronx came out, there were not enough fire marshals in all of NYC to investigate the fires that gutted the South Bronx. It was another year before enough manpower was put into the issue and the area finally stopped burning.

   How New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough Survived

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   What is 'the Bronx Is Burning'?

   • First published in 2005, it's described as 'a layered account', 'kaleidoscopic', 'a braided narrative', which weaves political, cultural, and sporting threads into one narrative. It was also the basis for the ESPN mini-series The Bronx Is Burning.

   Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning - Wikipedia

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   Did the South Bronx burn down their own neighborhoods?

   • In contrast to the official story that the people of the South Bronx burned down their own neighborhoods, the film stresses that it is only because of their grassroots organizing that the area continues to thrive. “There [were] no fire engines,” one resident says.

   How New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough Survived

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   How did the South Bronx build a better future?

   • After an epidemic of fires in the 1970s, the South Bronx banded together and built a better future for their children. Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s.

   Decade of Fire | The South Bronx Fires | Independent Lens | PBS

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   Was the Bronx fire a result of'social pathology'?

   • While officials like Moynihan claimed in a memorandum to Nixon that the Bronx fires were a result of “social pathology,” that youths turned to arson for fun, Decade of Fire argues a different case.

   How New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough Survived

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8. www.pbs.org › independentlens › documentariesDecade of Fire | The South Bronx Fires | Independent Lens | PBS

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   About the Documentary. Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx was on fire in the 1970s. Left unprotected by the city government, nearly a ...